Pietism and community in Europe and North America : 1650-1850 / edited by Jonathan Strom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strom, Jonathan.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Brill's series in church history ; v. 45.

Brill's series in church history. Religious history and culture series ; v. 4.

Brill's series in church history ; v. 45

Brill's series in church history. Religious history and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pietism--Europe.

Pietism.

Pietism--North America.

Communities--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.

Communities.

Communities--Europe.

Communities--North America.

Communities--Religious aspects--Christianity.

History.

North America.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xii, 368 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Summary:

Pietist movements challenged traditional forms of religious community, group formation, and ecclesiology. Where many older accounts have emphasized the individual and subjective nature of Pietists to the exclusion of community, one of the hallmarks of Pietism has been the creation of groups and experimentation with new forms of religious association and sociality. The essays presented here reflect the diverse ways in which Pietists struggled with the tension between the separation from the "world" and the formation of new communities from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century in Europe and North America. Presenting a range of methodological perspectives, the authors explore the processes of community formation, the function of communicative networks, and the diversity of Pietist communities within the context of early modern religious and cultural history. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Jonathan Strom

Understanding the church : issues of Pietist ecclesiology / Hans Schneider

Marriage and marriage-criticism in Pietism : Philipp Jakob Spener, Gottfried Arnold, and Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf / Wolfgang Breul

The "little church" of Johann Amos Comenius and Philipp Jakob Spener : approaches to church reform with a comprehensive social perspective / Marcus Meier

Communal diversity in radical German Pietism : contrasting notions of community in Conrad Bröske and Johann Henrich Reitz / Douglas H. Shantz

"Wir Halenser" : the understanding of insiders and outsiders among Halle Pietists in Prussia under Frederick William I (1713-1740) / Benjamin Marschke

G.A. Francke and the Halle Communication Network : protection, politics, and piety / Thomas P. Bach

Pietism as a threat to the social order : Pietist communities in Jena 1727-1729 / Gerald MacDonald

Israel in the church and the church in Israel : the formation of Jewish Christian communities as a Proselytising strategy within and outside the German Pietist mission to the Jews of the eighteenth century / Lutz Greisiger

Identities across borders : the Moravian Brethren as a global community / Gisela Mettele

Pink, White, and Blue : function and meaning of the colored choir ribbons with the Moravians / Paul Peucker

Network clusters and symbolic communities : communitalization in the eighteenth-century protestant Atlantic world / Alexander Pyrges

The pastor and the schoolmaster : language, dissent, and the struggle over slavery in colonial Ebenezer / James Van Horn Melton

Community in "companies" : the conventicles of George Rapp's Harmony Society compared to those in Württemberg Pietism and the Brüderunität / Alice T. Ott

Leadership and mysticism : Gustaf Gisselkors, Jacob Kärmäki, and the final stages of Ostrobothnian separatism / Andre Swanström

Haugeanism between liberalism and traditionalism in Norway, 1796-1845 / Arne Bugge Amundsen

Pietism and community in Magnus Friedrich Roos's dialogue books / Anders Jarlert

Pietism as societal solution : the foundation of the Korntal Brethren (Korntaler Brüdergemeinde) / Samuel Koehne

The communities of Pietists as challenge and as opportunity in the Old World and the New / Hartmut Lehmann.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9789004186361

9004186360

OCLC:

651901439

Publisher Number:

99940737390